The 20th Observance of His Assassination: Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)

DEVLYN BROOKS [Editor’s note: The title is mine. At the time of the crash, I was being interviewed in my office on the Duluth Campus of the University of Minnesota, when we heard the news. The reporter said, “Well, the black box should tell us what happened”, to which I replied, “There won’t be one!” And even though it was legally required, the black box did not survive, which I infer may have been why the FBI was there on the scene with preternatural speed, where, by my calculations, they…

AMERICAN ASSASSINATION: THE STRANGE DEATH OF SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE

by Bradley E. Ayers [Editor’s note: Brad Ayers was a good man. When I tripped over his review of my book with Four Arrows, I wanted to share it with my readers as a form of recognition. Subsequent to the publication of American Assassination (2004), I flew John P. Costella, who has a Ph.D. in physics with a specialization in electromagnetism, to Duluth, where we tramped around in -35*F weather picking up pieces of the wreckage in the snow. The result was our co-authored, “The NTSB Failed Wellstone”, from which…